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A tanker truck carrying 48,000 gallons of corn syrup overturned Monday while making a turn in Niles, prompting police to close a major road and call in crews to clean up the sweet spill.

Retired Des Plaines police officer and a leader in Des Plaines American Legion Post 36 Sons of the American Legion, Kevin O’Connell, will be honored at Monday’s city council meeting.

A woman who was pinned in her car at around 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14 following a crash near the intersection of Dee and Central roads in unincorporated Des Plaines, was pronounced dead at Lutheran ...